M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, University of Bucharest, 1972 Ph.D. in semiconductor Physics, 1990

Professional experience

design and manufacturing of first Romanian pin, varactor and step-recovery diodes; design and manufacturing of first Romanian microwave GaAs diodes (Schottky, Schottky-varactor, Gunn); contribution to the manufacturing of a 2-18GHz modulator/detector device; a new model for a switching behaviour of a narrow base pin diodes, with practical results in the obtaining of high efficiency step recovery diodes; new modelling of heavily doping parameters in silicon and GaAs; design and technological project for a nonlinear transmission line, based on Schottky array (a GaAs MMIC); technological process in GaAs MMICs; acoustic devices on Wide band Gap (WGB) materials (GaN, AlN) (since 2006)

micromechanics on silicon and GaAs; design and manufacturing of microwave pasive circuits supported on membranes (1997)-European priority design and manufacturing of membrane supported millimeter wave filters, antennae and receiver modules on silicon as well as on GaAs micromachined substrate Micromachining of WBG semiconducrors for microwave applications

Career

1972- present Senior Research Scientist at Research Institute for Electronic Components, Bucharest (now included in National Research and Development Institute of Microtechnology- IMT Bucharest) 1976 - 1996 Microwave Semiconductor Device, Group Head 1996- present Micromachined Structures for Microwave Applications, Lab. Head 1999- 2011 present President of the scientific council of IMT Bucharest

“MEMSWAVE” was nominated in 2002 between the first 10 European research projects at the competition for DESCARTES prize of the EC, for excellence in research. .

FP6 EC Network of Excellence in RF MEMS “AMICOM - Advanced MEMS for RF and Millimeter Wave Communications”, Contract no.: 507352 , (coordinator LAAS Toulouse,) 2004-2006, Dr A Muller is the leader of the Romanian team and a Member of Directory Board.of the project.

Coordinator of the INCO-COPERNICUS Project 977131 - MEMSWAVE 1998-2001 (IT project)-nominated between the first 10 European research projects for the EU DESCARTES prize 2002 in Scientific Excellence Participation in the IMPACT project of LAAS Toulouse 2001, 2002 in the frame of FP5 programme of EC Coordinator of bilateral cooperation agreements with: CNR Rome, IRST Trento, FORTH Heraklion, HAS Budapest Organizer of MME’2002 Workshop (Sinaia, Romania) Member of the Programme Committee of the MEMSWAVE Workshop